Tuke St School/Woods Road

The former Tuke St School site on Woods Road in Peckham is being redeveloped by developer Crest Nicholson.
The Tuke St school site was Council owned and sold to developers in 2013. The Cabinet report approving the disposal of the site says that the site is being sold on the basis that the proposed development of 115 homes will comply with policy requirements on affordable housing:

In 2014, the developer applied for planning consent for 122 homes which included 35% affordable housing, but which had substituted much of the social rented element by affordable rent of up to 70% market rent. The affordable housing offer comprised just 6 social rented homes.

Woods Road is yet another example of development on former council land which fails to provide the number of social rented homes required by policy. The land was sold on the basis of a policy-compliant development which wasn’t delivered and Southwark’s residents must pay the price of yet another poor deal by its political administration.